What motivates people to organize communal living themselves? What ideals are behind it, how do they finance themselves, and how does life in a community work? Based on six self-managed residential buildings in Austria from the past 40 years, the documentary film "Der Stoff, aus dem Träume sind" (The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of) sets out to find answers. Filmmakers Lotte Schreiber and Michael Rieper tell these six stories by staying very close to the protagonists.
Words are loaded with meaning. Certain ones conjure joyful memories and others remind us of less hap...

A portrait of the internationally acclaimed Japanese architect who employs Buddhist ideas and wester...

Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl explores of the dark underside of the human psyche by entering Austrian basem...

An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, ...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

A documentary that exposes the shocking truths behind industrial food production and food wastage, f...

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

On the tiny island of Martha's Vineyard, where presidents and celebrities vacation, trophy homes thr...

Johanna Dohnal, whose political career spans three decades, was one of the very first explicitly fem...

Through booms and busts, Delft Theatres and its innovative gem The Nordic endured in Marquette, Mich...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

A documentary film comparing current / everyday and historical / noble aspects of Prague.

A film about news, life and death. Before the media became so prevalent, we were concerned about ou...

Beginning at the industrial revolution of the ‘great north’, Jenn Nkiru draws lines between peoples,...